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POST
/
v1
/
workspaces
/
{workspace_id}
/
zombies
Create a zombie
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.usezombie.com/v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/zombies \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "trigger_markdown": "<string>",
  "source_markdown": "<string>"
}
'
{
  "zombie_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "name": "<string>",
  "status": "<string>"
}

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Obtain a token via the CLI auth flow (POST /v1/auth/sessions) or GitHub OAuth

Path Parameters

​
workspace_id
string<uuid>
required

UUIDv7 of the workspace.

Body

application/json
​
trigger_markdown
string
required

TRIGGER.md raw bytes — YAML frontmatter (name, trigger, tools, credentials, network, budget, gates) between --- delimiters. Server parses this to derive name and the persisted config_json.

Maximum string length: 65536
​
source_markdown
string
required

SKILL.md raw bytes — the agent instructions, stored as-is.

Maximum string length: 65536

Response

Created

​
zombie_id
string<uuid>
required
​
name
string
required

Zombie name parsed from TRIGGER.md frontmatter — the canonical identifier the user will see in zombiectl status and CLI output.

​
status
string
required